Pay up by Sept. 16 or we’ll dock your salary, Senate tells Wallin

OTTAWA – The clock is ticking for Sen. Pamela Wallin to pay back her dubious travel claims.

The former Conservative has until Sept. 16 to repay tens of thousands of dollars in ineligible travel expenses.

An official confirms that the upper chamber will start garnishing Wallin’s wages if she misses that deadline.

The Senate called in the RCMP after an audit called into question a litany of travel claims spanning nearly all of Wallin’s career as a senator, which began late in 2008.

The auditors flagged $121,348 in inappropriate expenses and the Senate committee later determined Wallin owed another $17,621, bringing her total tab to $138,969.

Wallin — who denounces the audit as “fundamentally flawed and unfair” — has already repaid $38,000, and has since promised to reimburse any disallowed expenses out of her own pocket, with interest.